Manufacturing Industry

Plextronics, university sign deal; WSJ names firm a runner-up for innovation award.(Wall Street Journal Innovation Award in Materials and Other Base Technologies 2006)(Brief article)

Plastics News, November, 2006

Plextronics, a Pittsburgh-based maker of conductive polymers, has signed a licensing agreement with Northwestern University. The agreement will integrate Northwestern chemistry professor Tobin J. Marks' innovations into thin film and molecular breakthroughs into its Plexcore HIL, which is a way to make organic light-emitting diodes.

The OLEDs, in the form of a thin film of organic compounds, can be "printed'' to make electronic displays such as cell phone and television screens. Plextronics makes inks used to manufacture the film. The inks are customized for each specific application or device. HIL stands for a polymer-based "hole injection layer,'' a development that Plextronics officials said dramatically improves the efficiency and lifetime of OLED...

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